Episode #13 - How to prevent e-mail spam with Jared Read
On location at Barnes & Noble
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News
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How to prevent spam
- Get Rid of your email address
- Use an obscure email address not sales@domain.com
- Removal from public accessibility (Dont use your email address on any web page every!)
- Do not send or open up email cards
- joke emails can often play a big part in spreading you email address to
- Keep your Junk E-mail Filter updated
- Block images in HTML messages that spammers use as Web beacons
- Turn off automatic processing of meeting requests and read and delivery receipts
- Limit where you post your e-mail address
- Disguise (or "munge") your e-mail address when you post it to a newsgroup, chat room, bulletin board, or other public places For example, you can give your e-mail address as "s0me0ne@example.c0m" by using the number zero instead of the letter "o." This way, a person can interpret your address, but the automated programs that spammers use cannot.
- Use multiple e-mail addresses for different purposes
- Review the privacy policies of Web sites
- Watch out for check boxes that are already selected
- Don't reply to spam
- If a company uses e-mail messages to ask for personal information, don't respond by sending a message
- Don't contribute to a charity based on a request in e-mail
- Don't forward chain e-mail messages
- Stop Spam
- Cloudmark - Great filter if you have a Spam problem already!
- Thunderbird - Great free email program with spam filter built in.
